Ruben Dries
Assistant Professor at Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRuben Dries is an Assistant Professor at Boston University and Boston Medical Center who leads the Lab of Systems and Spatial Biology and Oncology, applying cutting-edge spatial genomics to translational cancer research focused on reducing disparities in vulnerable populations. Trained across KULeuven, Erasmus MC, Tsinghua and Harvard, he blends deep interdisciplinary expertise in biomedical engineering with clinical collaborations that span clinicians to software developers. As the architect of Giotto, a widely adopted spatial omics software suite, he has helped shape early standards and tools in the spatial genomics field. Ruben’s work is notable for pairing fundamental mechanistic insight with practical endpoints that accelerate bench-to-bedside impact, and he is actively seeking partnerships with biotech companies driving technical advances in spatial technologies.
11 years of coding experience
highschool, Math & Sciences, highschool, Math & Sciences at Sint-Jozefcollege TurnhoutMaster thesis, Biomedical Sciences, Master thesis, Biomedical Sciences at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at KU LeuvenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Erasmus University RotterdamMaster, Biomedical Sciences, Master, Biomedical Sciences at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
English, French, German, Dutch
Github Skills (22)
toolbox10
spatial10
datasets9
missing-data8
imputation7
development-environment7
vast7
rna-seq6
ide6
rstudio6
bioinformatics5
bootstrap4
editor4
nas3
data-analysis3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
drieslab/Giotto_site_suite
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Website for Giotto Suite
Contributions:28 PRs, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
suite
drieslab/spatial-datasets
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
overview of spatial datasets
Contributions:86 commits, 8 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 1 month
datasetsspatial
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